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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80FVM41

1980-09-18 WATSONVILLE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N56276 Boeing A75N1 None

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

BOEING A75N1 · N56276

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DK

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

WATSONVILLE

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 2 kt

Temp

62° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000075-1701

Total time

2,153 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

24,000

Age

52

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

S.

Investigator remarks

SPRAYING ARTICHOKES.CRASH-LNDD AFTER CLRG PWR LN

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor
88/K/24 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS JETTISONED LOAD Joint factor

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2784. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2784.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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